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GINA (Guidance and Inertial Navigation Assistant) is a board developed developed through the WARPwING project in Prof. Kris Pister's lab. It combine a traditional "mote" (MSP430 microcontroller and AT86RF231 low-power radio) with several inertial sensors (acceleration, magnetometer, gyroscope). It is used as a "control unit" of un-maned vehicles.

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title OpenWSN support
GINA is fully supported in OpenWSN. The OpenWSN builders build the GINA firmware nightly: http://builder.openwsn.org/job/Firmware%20GINA/ Image Added https://travis-ci.org/openwsn-berkeley/openwsn-fw Image Added

Ecosystem

The Guidance and Inertial Navigation Assistant developed through the WARPwING project in Prof. Kris Pister's lab. The diagram below presents the GINA ecosystem.

GINA

The Guidance and Inertial Navigation Assistant (GINA) platform is a low-power wireless mote augmented with inertial measurement capabilities.

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• bill of materials;
• layout;
• schematic.

GINA-basestation

This board is a stripped-down version of the GINA above. It's only a communicating board, i.e. it has no inertial measurement capabilities. Instead, it features a UART-to-USB bridge chip and a mini-B USB connector.

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• bill of materials;
• layout;
• schematic.

GINA-breakout

This breakout card is used as a practical way of connecting external sensors to the header pins of the GINA platform.

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• bill of materials;
• layout;
• schematic.

GINA-JTAG-adapter

This adapter card is used to reprogram the firmware on either the GINA or the basestation board. This adapter interfaces between the board and a TI JTAG debug adapter for the MSP430 MSP-FET430UIF.

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All of the information about this open-source board can be found at http://warpwing.sourceforge.net/.

Battery

We use a lithium-polymer 3.7V 130mAh battery. It weighs 3.6 g and can be charged using the battery charger. It is manufactured by Tenergy as part# 39014. It can purchased from BSD Micro RC or Amazon.

Battery Charger

It charges a battery in approx. 10 minutes, and can charge two batteries simultaneously. It can be purchased from All Battery or Amazon.

USB Cable

This is a Standard A male to Mini B male, 1m-long USB cable, used to connect a GINA-basestation mote to a computer. It can be purchased from Digikey.

Programmer

The TI JTAG Debug Probe for the MSP430 MSP-FET430UIF is needed to reprogram the firmware on the GINA and GINA-Basestation boardsthe GINA and GINA-Basestation boards, through the GINA JTAG Adapter Card.

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• Use the GINA JTAG Adapter Card to reprogram the GINA and GINA-Basestation boards.

Breakout Daughtercard

You can use the breakout daughtercard to connect wires to the expansion headers of the GINA board.

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This diagram shows, once connected, what the breakout board holes correspond to. The adjacent vertical rows along the left and right edges of the board are simply connected together for convenience, when you add your own wires.

Test Pads

There are 11 test pads on the GINA2.2 board. You can solder wires and use an oscilloscope to debug these signals which are internal to the board (i.e. are not
brought up to the daughtercard expansion headers).

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Stencil

You can download this board's stencil here.

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